yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] DalekCaan:
[Problem] - Can't add a Facebook account

[Rom] - TP ICS b2

[Kernel] - Stock (with cam patch)

[Install] - Wiped data, cache, dalvik, installed over cm7.

[Replicated] - First time using ICS daily, but this is simply something I can't do. Rebooting doesn't help

As a side note, does beta 3 have any improvements over beta 2 besides the GSM as mentioned in the OP? Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] touchpro247:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21248588&postcount=334
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jbarcus81:
That's just whack...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] NickAVV:
Excellent news, I could honestly live without video recording, as long as I had photos. I emailed HTC anyway, as suggested in that post.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] thebasuke:
New releases since November? I've been using a Droid 2
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Undeception:
Bleah. It's actually the other way around for me :(

Me, too. Doubt anything will come of it though. They'd rather us buy new devices than breathe life into the old ones, wouldn't they?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] NickAVV:
Oh, they would, definitely. But given that most Americans at least, will only buy a new smartphone every two years, I think companies like HTC have an obligation to keep their current customers happy, lest those people purchase a smartphone of a different brand when their contract expires.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] touchpro247:
They did unlock the bootloader for a few devices, so that's the only reason I will email.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] NickAVV:
A good deal of phones actually, including the Verizon Droid Incredible 2, which seriously surprised me.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Undeception:
Very true. Which is why I went ahead and emailed them, just in case! :-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] brocksdad:
I think it's pretty cool that HTC actually listens to their customers. I emailed when the whole ordeal was going on with the bootloader being locked and I just emailed about the camera drivers. I'll post back up when/if they reply. Hopefully they listen to us about the camera also.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] touchpro247:
Which file manager works best w/ ics for you guys?

Any free ones (that are like root manager).
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] icon123:
I use es file explorer. Works great and can mount system read/write.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
I use root explorer. Have for about a year
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] touchpro247:
That's not "free". Lol

I need to add one to the roms for easy setup.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cory.spicer:
Yeah ES file explorer is my go-to file manager. You can enable root access in the settings. And yeah, it's free.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] touchpro247:
Yeah silentjoker suggested that one.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Lol my bad :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
Honestly, people can bash HTC's battery life all they want, I'll take an HTC product over a crappy kids toy like samsung or a just terribly produced peice of hardware in general like motorola anyday. Besides, the second you root your HTC phone, put an AOSP rom on it and begin oc/uv'ing it you will have amazing battery life anyway. I average about 1 1/2 to 2 days with Aeroevans 1-1-12 build.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] NickAVV:
That's very true. My old Droid Eris got about 8 hours of battery life from fully charged to fully drained. Then I rooted it, and it started to last me all day, easily.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] antdog24:
Yep, runnning Virtuous Affinity (well the beta because the release version battery life was worse) and I get AOSP type battery life out of the thing and its Sense 3.5
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Un1c0de:
Looking forward to that :-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
Angry Phone

So, I've tried redownloading, older rom versions, different rom dev's versions and for some reason, I can't get any of them to work like they used to. I've got three main issues persistent in every build I've flashed since late last week:

1. Everything is EXTREMELY laggy. I havent had this problem before, so I'm very confused. It will settle down after a bit and become more usable, but it's still very noticeable, but the next two are serious game changers that prevent any functionality.

2. When I long press the power button and select any of the reboot options, it hangs on the reboot dialogue, and does nothing for about 10 seconds, and then the statusbar displays a notification that the sdcard has been unmounted and is safe to remove, and then I'm all like WTF? This one makes no sense to me.

3. Whenever the screen is turned off, either by pressing the power button or timeout, it will not turn back on when the power button is pushed again or when plugged in, only the softkeys light up. This happens on Aerovan's builds and TouchPro's builds, and I have no idea why.

I'm having these issues on every possible setup, (AE's build w/ stock CM9 kernel, AE's build w/ AE's custom kernel, TP's builds with stock CM9 kernel, etc.). Since I'm having so much difficulty with this, I'm going to do an RUU to 2.3.4, and then downgrade to 2.3.3 (I know, it seems excessive, but I'm trying to be thorough so as to make sure this all works like it used to) , re-root and then try flashing all this again. I don't know or understand why this started happening to me all of a sudden, but it did, and now I'm getting pissy with my phone, which I don't like, as I love my phone. :)

After everything is all said and done, I'll report back to let everyone know if it worked, which I'm expecting it will. I remember when the experimental GB roms first came out when I had my OG Dinc many people had issues and an RUU was the easiest way to fix all your problems, so hopefully this works. I miss ICS, a lot. :(
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] sswb27:
Oooh I could use that...:D

Are you gonna share.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] seasonone:
I'm sure it's been answered but we're 100+ pages deep and couldn't find it in the previous 15 pages.

Is there a fix for the calendar sync? It just fails constantly. It would be nice to get a better camera/bluetooth but they're not needed for me to DD but I need the cal. I saw something where it said it "takes a while" but it's been failing since yesterday.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] mcsplatt:
Well for one thing I'm on beta3 and I have fb sync. No contact photos though, you hafta get haxsync app for that.

Sent from my ADR6350
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] zero75:
Older betas used to have this issue. If you can add an account but pictures are not syncing. Downgrade facebook to 1.8.0. Its worked for me on all the latest builds.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
GSM Worked on 2

I ran 2 for weeks and GSM ran just fine..

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Shut off your phone. Remove SD card. Put it in your computer. Set view to view hidfden files. Delete all dot files. Put it back your phone. Boot to recovery. Data Factory reset. Wipe Dalvik. Flash ROM. Enjoy.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] DalekCaan:
I just flashed over to beta3 and I still have the issue... do you think a clean reinstall would do it? I can't add the account in Accounts and Sync.

Thanks for all of your help
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
The problem with Facebook for all wondering, is Facebook themselves aren't letting contacts sync with ice cream sandwich. I don't remember why, but they just aren't.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] DalekCaan:
Okay, so I uninstalled Facebook and reinstalled with 1.8.0. 1.8.0 seems to be faster, and when it first started up it set an account. I think since I used Titanium Backup to restore my apps and data but not my system apps (I was afraid to go GB to ICS) the app was fine but the account was wonky.

Thanks again for all of your help
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
Thanks, but there are absolutely no .dot files on my sdcard, and I already have my PC set up to view all hidden files. I keep my card SUPER clean. I frequently go through and delete files I know are just hogging space and run SDMaid once every couple of weeks to clear out hidden cache files (like those .dot files and the stupid .db files Macs leave on mounted drives). I can run other roms just fine, it's just with ICS that I have this problem.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] mcsplatt:
But... But... Mine did... Mysterious... Just no photos.

Sent from my ADR6350
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] DalekCaan:
Sorry if this has been mentioned, but when I went from beta2 to beta3 I lost the menu where I could see what used to be something like cyanogenmod settings - it was called like quattro something. Is this supposed to be gone in beta3? If so, could I still get access to those settings somehow?

Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JLow0214:
Thay was a completely different ics rom beta 3 is pure ics
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
OH yeah they are

It's not .dot its ./"whatever" like: ./local, ./android, ./etc, ./data and so on. If you have an android phone, those are on your SD card. Or else your phone would not run..:-)

EDIT: They are call : "Dot files" in the Unix world, instead of hidden files.

EDIT2: SDMaid will only clear hiddem temp ./ files. ./android, ./data and ./etc are read only system files so you have to delete them with Adim privliges i.e root.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] BeardedB:
That was in beta 1 I believe. TP took them off though.

Sent from my Sirloin Steak using A1 Steak Sauce.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] DalekCaan:
@JLow

Well beta2 said pure ics too, and it had those settings so I thought that was just a name... Thanks for letting me know though.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
Nope, incorrect...

Beta_2 is not pure ICS. Those menus he is talking about were menus TP Kanged from Virtous Inc-S rom. Their customizations. Not Pure ICS AOSP..
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] hpaulus:
Problem. Ifvu turn off or restart the phone lost the carrier and work on roaming... if u try to select back GSM doesnt work, so i have to wipe dalvik and cache, after this the light control (home, setting, back and search) doesnt turn on. Help
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
It's a known bug in ALL ICS roms. Go to your Display settings and enable/disable Auto Brightness. If it's not enabled on boot, the softkeys won't light up until this is done.

Ahhh, learned something new, thanks! Windows didn't see them through my sd adaptor, so I'll boot into my Mint partition and see if it will show them.

Edit: Alright, so I checked again, and there were none. I also migrated important data off, formatted the sdcard and tried again fresh, but I had the same screen off problems again. Anybody else have any idea why this is happening? I don't understand why I'm having issues like this out of the blue. TP's Beta 3 ran more smoothly on my phone than MikRunny did, and that's saying something. Lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
Then try Root explorer

They have to be there. They are put there on first boot. Fire up your phone and start esfile explorer or root explorer. mount the sd card r/w and they will be there.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
Would you have time to hop on an IRC channel so we don't clutter up the thread? It'd be a little more efficient too.

#ICSMayhem

Edit: There we go, I see two: .android_secure and .n64oid, those are the only two, and the first one is cleared during a data wipe, correct? And boy, do I feel dumb; I've overlooked those folders several times now. :P

Sub-Point: I've never been so frustrated with my phone. I don't understand how it used to work, and now it doesn't all of a sudden.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
Awesome

Dont feel dumb, no question is dumb. delete the .android-secure the .data and .etc

then boot into recovery and data factory reset, etc, etc. etc. Should work fine after that.

EDIT: at a bar watching the game. DOnt have an IRC client on my phone.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
.data and .etc do not exist. I'll give you a screenshot or two here in a moment.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
Just delete every dot file you see on the sd card. Then go just like its your first time flashing a ROM. I usually data factory reset 3 times and do the Dalvik twice. Then flash.

EDIT: Formatting the Dalvik is very important. Def do it twice to make sure it got formatted.

EDIT2: Also if you use TiBu to restore your apps, restore just the app. Not the app and data because it will contain data from your last setup (last time you backed up) and that data can cause conflicts.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kevdliu:
or if you dont have too musch stuff on your SD card move the important stuff out and then format the card
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
No Doubt. That would be the next thing to do if it still has issues..:-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JLow0214:
Ya my phone was runnin sluggish from constant flashing after I formatted sd it runs like a champ
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
See, this is why I'm frustrated: I've followed all of the above steps, and practice them adamantly. Not to sound snooty, but I know my way around my phone. I learned a lot from my Fascinate (if you had that phone, you know how much of a pain it was, and I know several people here migrated from the Fassy forums), and then got interested and dug a little deeper with more in-depth reading so I could learn more about Android just for fun.

The first time I formatted my SD yesterday to start trying to diagnose why I couldn't get this to work, I only put back the immediately needed folders to save time, then re-downloaded the roms, kernels, G-Apps and cam patch on my computer with my SD in its adaptor, then put it back in and flashed, each zip separately to be safe; and even with everything on the sd-card, I only fill just over 9 gigs, and it's a 16GB Class 10 card.

I've done this several times, and formatted the SD in every way possible (inside phone OS, three different recoveries, and three computer programs: two on Windows, one on Linux), redownloaded everything multiple times, and done a full RUU and unroot to try and figure this out.

Maybe my phone just doesn't like ICS anymore. That's literally the only thing I can think of at this point to explain this :P

Sorry to clutter up the thread, everyone, if it doesn't work here soon, I'm going to just give up. It's not worth the frustration. There are other roms I like that run perfectly well, and they're already better than stock.

Edit: Maybe I'll try booting without an sd-card, just to see what happens. Lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] silentjoker:
After 1 day of bull**** 20$ for a new card **** wasting my time. I'd snap that old card in a heartbeat. My 2 cents.

*were at that age of getting things done...* lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JLow0214:
Try formatting sd then only put the rom on sd and nothing else and flash it. Just to be sure there's not extra bull**** on your card
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] RegnierD:
Well, good news!

I re-did everything above one last time, and it worked! I don't know why it wasn't working before, or why it suddenly started working again (which is frustrating), but I'm not going to curse my luck and question it now! Thank you to everyone that kept feeding suggestions and being helpful, I appreciate it. Good to know the community's there when you need it. :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Grouper:
Actually "./android_secure" would be a file or folder named "android_secure" in the current directory, not ".android_secure". You're talking about files and folders that start with a period. ".android_secure" is not the same as "./android_secure".

A forward slash ("/") at the beginning of a path means the root directory, a period followed by a forward slash ("./") means the current directory, and a period at the beginning of the file or folder name ("./.foo", "/.foo", ".foo") just means that name begins with a period. Also, in most situations you don't really need to specify current directory, so writing "rm ./foo" every time you do something is a waste of time, you can just "rm foo".
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Amphibliam:
I formatted the SD from the ROM itself. I.e., flash the ROM, boot it up, then go into storage and format the SD.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JLow0214:
Lol so now that your phone works again anyone know when the next beta is coming?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] InsanityOnABun:
How many times has it been said that betas will come on Fridays?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Undeception:
At the risk of annoying people (I really do apologize), I would like to know what goes into BT device compatibility. Apparently BT is working for some people, and indeed, I connected to my laptop with beta3. But then two of us on this thread have reported that our headsets do not show up in a scan. My particular headset (Rocketfish RF-MAB2) worked with stock and CM7 without any trouble, and I have read multiple people talking about it working on their Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S with stock ICS.

I would have guessed that whatever codes for BT compatibility would have been all-or-nothing rather than hit-or-miss. Essentially, does anyone have any idea what it would take to make more BT devices available for pairing? I'd love to use one of these builds as my DD, but I just can't as it is.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JLow0214:
I know but we skipped one last Friday
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] hatyrei:
I'ved read at XDA facebook page that HTC Rezound gets ICS 4.0 port...ist possible to port this to our HTC INC2? like the past roms? Camera & Beats should be working. :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] fredrick1213:
I think TP said he has the ROM ready but is waiting for a kernel
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] hpaulus:
Do not desperate..... i wish to learn android programming..... some tips appreciatr
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jewnersey:
how are people setting pictures as wallpaper. Using gallery blows it up and makes it look shtty
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
It's not the gallery doing it, it's low resolution from your gallery pics and the new homescreen set up, since the gallery now has you crop the wallpaper in a cross formation due to the homescreen being available in landscape and portrait you need a larger resolution picture than the standard 480x800 if you want it to look nice, so if you want something that's gonna look good make sure to have it dead center in the middle of a photo that is 800x800 or larger.

Honestly I hate the landscape homescreen and don't want to have to crop my wallpapers that way but not much we can do.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] beaton3344:
^ I see. I was wondering the same. My nook color with ICS on it was all messed up. Going to see if this helps. Thinks for the info. Makes since.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] yoseir2:
hey guys, i just flashed from lefty's cm7 kang to aeroevan's 1/18 ICS build with kernel v6, and im noticing that scrolling up and down is not as smooth as it was with cm7.. any tips to get smoother scrolling?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kevdliu:
its happening on all ICS ROMs. it will scroll faster if you flick the screen instead of swiping it
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
yep, i think it's a mixture of the fact we don't have full hw acceleration yet and that ICS modified it so it doesn't overscroll accidently when trying to lightly move through a menu. i'm fine with it because it's still smoother than gb roms imo.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Hey guys. I haven't heard from tp lately so nothing to report
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jewnersey:
gotcha. yeah landscape homescreen is useless to me too.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
I use nova launcher so i can lock my homescreens in portrait. ;)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
You can with trebuchet as well. I keep portrait myself.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
Yes I know

Yes and no. They are both. Thus the scalability of Unix/Linux/BSD, etc...Anyway, I had meant "." files. and ./ files are not only local files use or files used in naming conventions. They are usually System files both local and non local. depends on the set up. Also a "/" by itself means root directory ( duh I Know you know that) but every thing else is just the next directory in the chain. ( hierarchy) "." file usually indicate the user info or program specific info for that user; that must be hidden in the users home directory or it can be ./ file which are usually but not always system files, also hidden but not in the user directory. but like you said hidden in that current directory for ./ files.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
yes but trebuchet locks all of the native menus and such in portrait as well. nova only locks the homescreen itself in portrait.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
Oh nice. Didn't know that.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Amphibliam:
Would anybody be interested in on-screen ICS buttons and disabled hardware buttons?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Undeception:
Definitely. I really consider it part and parcel of the stock ICS experience.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Amphibliam:
I'm working on it. So far I managed to screw stuff up pretty bad. lol.

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Eh, I'll work some more on it tomorrow. Can't figure out what the hell I did to it.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] fredrick1213:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1399238

This ROM looks NICE!
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cory.spicer:
Sounds awful. Wasted screen real estate and a useless row of buttons? No thanks. The hard buttons are stuck on this phone, we might as well use them.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] hpaulus:
#camera stop working when activate video.

#music sound bad when u replay an mp3
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kevdliu:
Is this GSm only or does cdma work as well?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ChrisDDD:
I agree completely. If they are enabled, please make it an option. I wouldn't trade the screen space just to replace dedicated buttons with on-screen ones. Just don't see the point.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Amphibliam:
Chill guys. It would be a flashable. I'm not even deving with tp and aero or anyone. I'm working on it on my own.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] jewnersey:
i want that lockscreen
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
No not me

NO would lose too much screen space. And lose functionality of the soft buttons/key more wasted space. I think Din2 was designed with the keys, we should keep them. Maybe put in a option to toggle them on and off?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] fredrick1213:
GSM Galaxy Nexus only unfortunately :(
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
Quick question, do any of you guys know who put the bop in the bop shoowop shoowop?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] mturco:
Not even slightly. I can't think of any possible advantages to that for this phone.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
I Do

Sha na na. late 50's early 60's " Greaser" (think "Early Fonzie from Happy Days") Do Wop groupe. That's their most famous song. They had a variety show on CBS in the early 70's when I was a little kid.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Nephilim:
lol.

10char.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] kerfex:
Ha I just looked them up, I was wrong, all there songs were covers of 50's classics and their most famous was" Goodnight Sweetheart". 77-81 was when they were on TV. They still tour and with 3 of the original members and a full band. They started in 1957 out of Brooklyn. Sorry for off topic. Could not resist. These guys cracked me up when I was young. They were so strange, yet they could sing really well.

EDIT: They were so over the top. They make Brian Setzer look normal!
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] BeardedB:
Im so sleepy
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Guys I know tp hasn't been here and I've been busy. But can we stay on topic?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] silentjoker:
Who was dominos.....
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] mcsplatt:
Yer mom stays on topic lol

Sent from my ADR6350
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] silentjoker:
Ya on top of my topic...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] thebasuke:
So how's the camera?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] HypostaticOnion:
Great as long you dingy need front camera, video, or flash.